Vaccine exemptions surge as docs do 'Hail Mary' around vaccine laws. Via KHNews.
nationwide through March 28, according to the CDC. In California, 16 cases had been reported, two of them requiring hospitalization.
The wording has led to a kind of gray market in which parents share names of “vaccine-friendly” doctors by word of mouth or in closed Facebook groups. And some of those doctors are granting children blanket exemptions — for all time and all vaccines — citing a range of conditions not supported by federal guidelines, such as a family history of eczema or arthritis.
In recent years, however, the board has sanctioned only one doctor for inappropriately writing a medical vaccine exemption in a case that. Since 2013, the board has received 106 complaints about potentially improper vaccine exemptions, including nine so far this year, said spokesman Carlos Villatoro.
Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital and the medical board’s expert witness, said that the exemptions issued by Kennedy appear to have been provided “without an appropriate evaluation,” according to court documents. Kennedy declined comment to Kaiser Health News. “I don’t want to be out in the open,” he said in a brief phone exchange. “I’ve got to go. I’ve got a business to run.”
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